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How Red Bull ousted the last American with a real chance in F1

Analysis To news overview © Toro Rosso It has been some years since an American driver lined up for a Formula 1 race. Yet there are hopes that this could be about to change, with F1 legend Mario Andretti recently speaking of his desire to get IndyCar's Colton Herta a place on the grid in the future. "We’d need the American driver with a top team, not in the back with no chance," Andretti told Autosport. "If you could get an American driver in F1, producing results, you’d have America going crazy for F1." If Herta did successfully make the switch, he would become one of the very few drivers from the US to compete in a Grand Prix in recent times. The last American to...
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